No. HB 739
Filed under Local Government.
Disability Provisions for Firefighters and Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers; Provides & revising definitions; provides that previous medical examination revealing no evidence of tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension will satisfy preemployment physical examination requirement.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFirefighters could already use a required medical exam to cover a missed preemployment physical, if it found no tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension. Law enforcement officers now get that same fallback.
The bill also gives 'heart disease' its own legal definition for this disability presumption: an organic, mechanical, or functional problem with the heart, its structures, or the coronary arteries.
Several scattered cross-references -- to the statutes defining correctional officer, correctional probation officer, law enforcement officer, fire service provider, medical specialist, and prescribed course of treatment -- are consolidated into one new definitions list at the top of the section.
None of this changes who already qualifies for the underlying presumption, or what it presumes -- only the definitions behind it, and how someone without a preemployment physical can still qualify.
AIIf a law enforcement officer never had a preemployment physical, their medical exam required under s. 943.13 now counts as satisfying that requirement, as long as it turned up no tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension. Firefighters already had this fallback; this bill extends it to law enforcement officers for the first time.
AIDefines 'heart disease' for purposes of this disability presumption as any organic, mechanical, or functional abnormality of the heart, its structures, or the coronary arteries, giving the term a fixed legal boundary it did not have written into this section before.
AIAdds a single definitions list at the start of the section for correctional officer, correctional probation officer, fire service provider, law enforcement officer, medical specialist, and prescribed course of treatment, replacing repeated inline cross-references to other statutes with one upfront set of terms.